He may well be inexperienced, delusional and even a bit crazy, but North Korea leader Kim Jong Eun isn’t entirely irrational if he’s feeling hemmed in and isolated. Jerry Seib reports. Photo: AP.

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... the the ... its North Korea's dictator Kim Jong ... UN as it last all the seams maybe not says will Street dolls Joe resigned he joins us now ... from Washington DC at Jerry thank you Brian much for being map ... sure you get ... on to Jenny Summly seems irrational aam ... and Dom ... and somewhat crazy lease on the sofa so ... maybe he's not as irrational as it seems the thing ... well look I mean he's twenty eight played tools delusional it appears they may be a little wacky but he's got some reasons the squirming aam ... it may not be totally irrational if he feels that he's had been in a little bit desperate because the neighborhood he lives in ... has got a little tougher for him just in the last few months in ways that I think people commonly realized ... get a new leader North Korea obviously can act in himself but in South Korea in China and Japan in all three places the most important countries outside of North Korea ... if you're the North Korean leader looking at the world ... out there are new governments in places and in place in those three places ... I in the last few months and all I at least problematic if not more hostile to North Korea than their predecessors in China is that ... I president has already signed on the sanctions economic sanctions against North Korea United Nations ... and has been publicly chiding the North Koreans a little bit which is gonna be worrisome if you don't hang ... on in South Korea a you gotta Neuquen conservative government ... not maybe is hostile to North Korea's its predecessor but certainly more ... than the Liberal government that this North Koreans clearly hoped would win and that its the elections South Korea last December ... on a and meanwhile in Japan Prime Minister Aubrey's back for round two ... he's much more national nationalistic a much more fond of the military buildup in Japan ... that his predecessors no work ... and so that's problematic as well so ... if he feels as if the world is cracking am I not beyond him a little bit ... it may have some good reason to feel that way one and nineteen so when you play like that I can come to see it but if I was so surrounded by folks that maybe one so funny to me is perhaps the previous breaking swap ... I might be thinking hmm ok woman of the of the mall ... in that mall reconciliation ... aam and what you than you might ... and I ... would you why we find out that ... he might not well I doubt it it's hard to say oh look there's there's a lot of signals being sent here this might be about sending signals of people including by the way President Obama just beginning his second term here ... sending signals all those people that on the committee marginalize on the cover be pushed into the corner here ... in that that maybe all it is now you also can rule out the possibility that much of this has to do a sending the same kind of signals ... to people inside is on government to be older military leadership around him ... out ... to whom he may want to be testing or dreaded demonstrating his manhood ... so there may be signal sends signals being sent internally and externally ... and that maybe the reason for what happened here doesn't make it less dangerous in effect these are the situations ... in which miscalculations occur but it might be a reason he feels will squeeze right to ... protect bright column as always the fifth of Paris but we thank the time ... happy be with you